How to get the player from a touch

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#1

I’m trying to make a scanner where when you touch the part , results come up on a screen.
I can’t work out how I get it to register the hit , and the player who hit.
Could someone help out please?

#2

You want to listen for a Touched event. That event will fire for a part whenever something touches it, and the other part will be passed in as a parameter. Since the part touching the scanner will be a body part of a player, you would check to see if the parent of the touching part is a player’s character.

local function touchListener(partThatTouched)
	local char = partThatTouched.Parent
	-- We have to search for a player because we can't always assume
	--	that whatever touched the brick was one.
	local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char)
	if (player ~= nil) then
		print("Player: "..player.Name.." touched the scanner.")
	else
		print("Something touched the scanner but it wasn't a player.")
	end
end

scannerPart.Touched:Connect(touchListener)
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#3

You can do something like

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit and hit.Parent and hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
                  -- do whatever you want
	end
end)
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